Greater Boston struggles with a lack of affordable housing, as tight inventory and rising costs place significant burdens on homebuyers and renters.

Care workers provide supports that every person requires at some point, whether in infancy, illness, disability, or old age.

Massachusetts is among the wealthiest states in the country, and yet Latino communities here continue to struggle disproportionately with food insecurity, poverty, and unemployment.

Not only is racial diversity increasing in the aggregate, but a growing number of families are forming across racial and ethnic lines.

Asian Americans have the largest intragroup income inequality of any racial group.

A vision for building walkable 15-minute neighborhoods that leverages our strengths and addresses many of our region’s persistent challenges.

Roughly half of small businesses nationwide have unmet need for capital, and this share jumps to two-thirds for entrepreneurs of color.

With contributions from a range of community voices, Seizing the Moment presents concrete ideas for building back better from the pandemic.

The wrong level of government—small cities and towns, rather than the state—is making too many of our important housing policy decisions. This paper offers one concrete model for how the state can take a more proactive role in setting land use regulations.

Massachusetts has an opportunity to lead the nation in providing a guaranteed income to low and moderate-income residents, utilizing a tool already at its disposal – the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Even though our city’s total population has been increasing, we’ve actually lost school-aged population at the same time. Enrollment in Boston’s schools has declined and those who remain are increasingly isolated by income and race.

A growing federal effort to limit immigration to the U.S. has had substantial impact on families, communities and the legal system in Massachusetts.

After a decline during the mid-20th century, we’re now several decades into a new global wave of immigration, bringing Boston back to its roots as a city of immigrants.

Boston’s booming economy has many benefits, but it’s still leaving too many families behind. Economic mobility is down. Our middle class is hollowing out. Racial disparities persist.

Presents data that provide a helpful background vehicle and jumping off point for a very unreasonable goal—Making Boston America’s Upward Mobility City.

A snapshot of changes in Boston’s K-12 education landscape after five years of reform showing the growth of the autonomous schools and the impact on student learning and achievement.

Shows that standard economic indicators don’t tell us everything we need to know about equity and prosperity in Boston’s post-recession innovation economy.

A short report on poverty in Boston over the last two decades and today.

Highlights rising income inequality in Boston and the region and its harmful effects.

A comprehensive view of the entire arc of Boston’s system of educational opportunities and outcomes.

Details Boston’s outsized historic and current role in the world and seven crisis/opportunity pairs that, together, reframe Boston’s challenges as the foundation for future growth.

Notes intensifying global competition for talent and jobs and the need for a coherent response.

Emphasizes post-recession Boston’s creative economy assets and the challenge of talent retention in a high-cost city and region.

Provides baseline data for the height of Boston’s tech boom, and warns of the regional knowledge economy’s disparate effect on more- and less-well educated Boston residents.